Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-13
AN EXPLOSION ON A PIER
STRIKERS FiENDISHLY VEN9
THEIR SPLEEN.

Flames Leap Along the Wood Work
but are Soon Extinguished-MaSy ot
the Men Who Went Out to be r. IA
Idleness.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-FOllowing tha
declaration OF District Assembly No. 10
of the knights OF Labor that the strike
was of, there was general rush Of
longshoremen aud freight handlers along
the whole river front to get back to work
At some of the piers along the East rIvet
the strikers had not even waited for ths
order from headquarters, but had crepi
back to work on the best terms they could
make. AS early as 8 o'clock this morn.
ing gangs OF strikers were seen
around the piers yaisSsEO ia
catch the foremen and gss$PhntendentS
as they came to tGNW respective
piers. 10 other cases the strikers slipped
on the docks among the non-union men,
or over the bulkheads, or through tfs
side entrances. AT the Maine Steamship
| Company's piers Agent Hall SAID he had
| got all bis old hands back, - twenty.
| tive outsiders were there also, whom he
could not find employment for. AT the
| Clyde, Mallory and Ward piers also many
of the old hands had found their way hack,
! but in no instance were they recognized
as unionists. BY Monday IL is expected
/ pnAb Lne DuSlnebb Ct bub sJedusulp come
panies will be proceeding as evenly aa
before the strike.
| At the Ocean Association headquarters
to-day one OF the Executive Committes
stated that the end OF the strike would noe
| end the boycott on the Old Dominion line.
The striking freight handlers and long@
| shoremen are not all being received back
TO their old places. At pier No. OF the
Pennsylvania railroad all of the old men
rD ttrp nd aNuu haFr fha.U ralf lfad 70.
reinstatement. The new hands have be.
come efficient and no places were vacant,
| The Red Star and Inman steamshIu
piers in Jersey City refused to take thelR
old men back in body, but they were
told that IL they applied individually soma
of them would be taken on.
The strikers who asked to be Tenstated
at the Erie railway docks were told to 20
home and wait until they were sent for.
A similar answer was given the freight
men OF the Pennsylvania road in Jersey
| City. The striking coal handlers show
no signs of weakening, but their position
| is OF very little consequence.
THE LOSS OF WAGES.
Bradstreeps to-day publishes the fol-,
| lowing figures concerning the late strike
l in an estimate OF the loss of wages to the
strikers from Jan. to Feb. 10 at the port
| of New York: LongshOremen, boatmen.
! ETC., $500, coo: boot and shoe factory ems
| ployes, $960,000; coal handlers at New
Jersey shipping ports, $465,000; New
! York and New Jersey freight handlers,
| $4,000; tobacco and cigar factory oper-
atives, $4,000; textile (carpet and cOr6.
age) employees, 500 600; iron and steel
mill employees, $4,000; glass factory
employees, s., 600; miscellaneous, $3.50, 900!
total wages sacrificed by striking EN-.
| ployes $2,650, 600. The estimated total
loss of wages by about 5000 industrial ems
| ployes thrown out of work through the
scarcity of coal or on account Of strikes
by others within forty days past is $780,
600. The grand total of waZs sacrificed
since Jan. is $3,O00,O00. Other.losses
from the strikes since Jan. are estl7
mated as followe9 Total extra amount paid
for coal throughout the strikesarSS00, ,000s
total losses incurred by ste4 com-
panies through delays, $l00,000; total
| losses to coal shippers from various
causes, 100000; total estimated losses ia
the export trade of New York for twd
weeks, SO, $4,000.
| MORE FIENDIsHNEss.
| An evident attempt to f1re the freight
shed OF the Morgan Steamship Company
at lpIer No. 36, North river, foot of North
Moore street, was made tonight about ID
| O'Clock, when an explosion occurred
| which caused q stampede among the
truckmen, who were shipping freight at
the time. The gate OF the she'd which
contained large quantity of freight, took
fire, but 1t was soon extiDguished, azd no
damage worthy OF mention was done.
Adjoining the Morgan dock is q
freight shed where truckmen deliver their
shipments. The shed contained large
| amount of freight tonight and goods were
being delivered there up TO a late hour.
There are two gates in the shed opening
| from West street. The north gate was
| nj a a m 0f v a
other was open and truck was backed
up on the pier from which a shipment of
| barbed fence wire was being unloaded.
| There were several trucks unloading on
the dock and several more were drawn up
in the streets. Two policemen were On
duty at the pier.
THE EXPLOSION
| Roundsman Graham, of the 6mboat
squad, was standing In front of the shed
| at 10 O'Clock, when suddenly a loud ex-
| plosIon occurred. Flames shot up from
the pier in the rear OF the closed gate
and set fire to It. The explosion was
heard two blocks away and people rush.
ed TO the pier. The explosion caused
much alarm among the non-union men
| employed on the pier and all hands fled
| for their lives. When IL was thou bit safa
to venture near, water was thrown on tbd
flames at the gate and blankets wera
used to eXtinguish them. Then an ex-
animation was made, and IL was dlscov-
cred that no damage bad been done. Evi.
| IDENTIFY some explosive had been placed
close to the fender at the gate.
| THE EXPLOSIVE.
A search Of the vicinity was made and
| seyeral pieces OF glass and the neck OF
Z hisky flask was found. Near by
LOS small tin box. These were taken
ITO the station house and examined. The
flask had contained PHOSPHORUS. Tbs
police do not think that the tin box had
any connection with the explosion. The
contents Of the flask be-
fore 1t was shattered Is only
matter OF conjecture. The phosphorus
had been used TO ignite the explosive,
whatever it was. There was an odor Of
| phosphorus near the scene OF the ex-
| pioson. Dynamite was at first thought
| to have been the agency used, but this
theory was abandoned because Of the
trifiing damage done. The police regard
the explosion as an attempt made by the
defeated strikers or some one in sympathy
with them TO damage the company's prop
| erty.
IN A BAD FIX AT SOUTH AMBoY.
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